I.F. "NEW"

PAINTER 12.

After Ten Years...

This is the little sign that hung from the door at

SEVEN ARTISTS; KEY WEST.

We made all the art inside its wavy walls.

The street fills with other sorts of galleries.

Or yoghurt shops.

I have my little studio on Simonton at 316.

My next show is at

Frangipani Gallery on January 4.

Local art by local artists and no yoghurt.

IF: "Glow"

Happy

Joy-filled

Tasty

Cuddly

Musical

Thoughtful

Safe

Holidays to all my friends and family!

3 Wishes by David Scott Meier

IMARI

designs join with a genie.

I like the way his turban continues his digital count

of available wishes.

For the January showing at FRANGIPANI GALLERY.

Oil on panel.

BOOOM!

Propped this up for its snapshot:

"GARDEN GOES BOOM!"

OIL ON PAPER.

For my January exhibition at FRANGIPANI GALLERY in Key West.

Oil on paper.

A CENTAUR

with a very long tail.

For the January showing.

I always like to play with patterns.

Alkyd oil on paper. Found a great frame for it...

New Work

A quick (as you see!) shot of

"REVERSE SUSHI"

for my JANUARY show

at Frangipani Gallery in Key West.

Most boats passing our house have a dog on board.

Oil on panel; 16 x 20

and

giclee prints available now.

DANCERS in progress.

I'm working on new pieces for a one-artist showing in January.

When I clean my heavy

glass palette  at the day's end,

I make use of the remaining pigments.

Here's mostly Prussian Blue brushed out into a dancing figure.

 I blotted it with deli'/sandwich paper

and printed two other dancers with the monotype.

Pattern is created and supported by a 'floor' of

flower designs from the remaining

alkyd oil.

The rag board is primed with tinted acrylic gesso.

More frames...

WHEN

I do my UPS shipments from 

SEVEN ARTISTS

in

Key West,

I like to finish the grind with calligraphy

on the parcels.

Ms. Chiroff has saved a few, as you see.

I commented that the art work may not be

as archival as the frames.

Frames for the season...

I like to work with

FLORIDA FRAMES.

here's another batch of 16 X 20's

for my show at 

FRANGIPANI GALLERY

in Key West.

Busy, busy but grateful....

"STRETCH"

FOR

Illustration Friday.

BIZZY

'Spent most of the day

making a new business card.

Each side looks really different

but with shared water tints.

HERE

is my online printer.

IF: "Whiskers"

Word of the week on

ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY.

LOTS of cats!

Thanksgiving

Treasure

from big bulbs.

Have a happy holiday.

Two in the trees....

THESE

two orchids will greet our guests

on Thanksgiving.

Unless some iguana sneaks the flowers onto his menu.

Green-fingered Bill is to be congratulated.

ROOTS

DANGLING

textures under the orchids.

Just for fun.

RADIAL

NATURE'S

invitation to look closer.

Outside and inside on Sugarloaf.

Parrot Head

THIS GUY

has two new friends.

ART NOUVEAU

WANDERING

around the garden this morning

in the raking light.

These buds...

set seeds.

JATROPHA GOUT

OF NOTE:

that black plastic band on the palm tree

keeps the iguanas from climbing

to

delicious orchids.

"PARROT HEAD"

Those who follow Jimmy Buffett's

tunes and island lifestyle are 

"PARROT HEADS."

Here's a nod to those rummy tourists!

"SUN WORSHIPPER"

FRAN

(or 'Franita' as I call her)

has asked me to join her stable of artists

and

 will give an exhibition of my new paintings

in January of 2013.

Seen above is a detail of one of the new oils.

Below, another a detail from the same panel.

NEW STUDIO- new post

I Have

a new studio.

Smally wedged between

the

PELICAN POOP

(where Hemmingway stayed in the 30's)

and the nice folk

in a custom t-shirt shop. 

It has a palm tree in front of its 700 square feet.

Obsolete wording on its blue awning

 indicates I have tourist info. and maps of Key West.

This is not so. I have a work table and 

a thermos of green tea and Cuban tile floors.

I have a new front door whose glass

is polished daily as one would detail a new car for

the first week.

My redwood sign is an artifact from

my gallery/studio in Laguna Beach, CA.

People that stop for maps occasionally remain to look at my work.

I've had a sale!

All THIS

in preparation for the closure of

SEVEN ARTISTS

and a showing in January here.

Zombie Bike Ride in Key West

My camera cable is on the fritz.

I'm painting but you wouldn't know it.

Others' cameras are fully functional as you see.

The 2012 ZOMBIE BIKE RIDE

was last night. Marky (top left) puts it all together.

It's a mobile party through Key West with more than a thousand

zombie riders

congregating along the waterfront and bars.

Fran Decker got lit up for the event!

I'll be working with her gallery in the new year.

Two at home...

Two at home.

Oil on collage.

8 X 9

Three Birdies

A fourth in the series.

The two thin lines help hold it all together.

Oil on collage.

8 X 9 inches.

In Leaves....

A third from the series.

I used a brayer to roll most

of the texture out of the tissues.

The little white leaf is type correction film.

Bird collages

Another in the series.

Oils on acrylic tissues.

Collage with oils... Bird couples.

A new series of collages of

acrylic tissues (deli wrap!)

and oil on acid-free foam core.

8 x 9 inches.

You can really see the texture on this first.

A PORTRAIT: T. AND R.

"TIKI AND RUDY"

Oil on panel. 16 x 20 inches.

Their home is '60's cool.

There's the gold for the heart.

DO YOU LIKE CLOUDS?

WE do!

This was my cloud I followed home from work last week.

The sun was behind me and others on the road from Key West to Sugarloaf.

No one seemed in a hurry to get home;

traffic was going slow to take in the view.

A very happy sky diver twirled down to

the airstrip before the rains came.

I knew Bill would be out with his camera:

this is his fav,' pic.'

It's been his screen-saver this week.

So he's loaned it to us all.

"SUGARLOAF"

OUR GARDEN

on the water.

Oil on canvas; 16 X 20

"TRANCE"

"TRANCE"

DAVID SCOTT MEIER

The siren call of the tennis ball.

Oil on panel; 16 X 20.